Mozilla mail products vulnerable to heap buffer overflow via Content-Type headers

Overview

Mozilla mail products contain a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the way they process Content-Type headers. This may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.

Description

Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey contain a buffer overflow vulnerability. Both applications fail to properly process long Content-Type headers in external message bodies.

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Impact

A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system

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Solution

Upgrade

Mozilla has addressed these vulnerabilities in Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 and SeaMonkey 1.0.7.

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Vendor Information

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Updated: December 20, 2006

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

Please see Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2006-74.

If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23887332 Feedback>).

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References

• <http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-74.html&gt;
• <http://secunia.com/advisories/23439/&gt;
• <http://secunia.com/advisories/23591/&gt;
• <http://secunia.com/advisories/23598/&gt;
• <http://secunia.com/advisories/23514/&gt;
• <http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21668&gt;

Acknowledgements

This vulnerability was reported in Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2006-74. Mozilla credits Georgi Guninski.

This document was written by Katie Steiner.

Other Information

CVE IDs:	CVE-2006-6505
Severity Metric:	26.72 Date Public: